• The 1948 Sun Bowl matched the Texas Tech Red Raiders and the Miami (Ohio) Redskins. Blackburn helped Gillman coach this game for a team that went undefeated...
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  • The Sun Bowl is a college football bowl game that has been played since 1935 in the southwestern United States at El Paso, Texas. Along with the Sugar...
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    David Showell, would not play. On November 19, 1948, Lafayette College was invited by the Sun Bowl Committee to play against the Texas College of Mines...
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    1946 Gator Bowl, South Carolina (2–3–3); 1963 Sun Bowl, SMU (4–6); 1970 Tangerine Bowl, William & Mary (5–6); and the 2001 New Orleans Bowl, North Texas...
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    Redskins to a victory over Texas Tech in the 1948 Sun Bowl. Blackburn was named head coach for the 1948 season after Gillman left. Blackburn stayed as...
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    (1996), Norwest Sun Bowl (1997–98), Wells Fargo Sun Bowl (1999–03), Vitalis Sun Bowl (2004–05), Brut Sun Bowl (2006–09), and Hyundai Sun Bowl (since 2010)...
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  • Optimist Bowl: 1946 Salad Bowl: 1948 Sun Bowl: 1959 New Orleans Bowl: 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2017 Heart of Dallas Bowl: 2014, 2016 New Mexico Bowl: 2018...
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  • Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. South Alabama joined the FBS in 2012 as a member of the Sun Belt Conference...
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  • their fourth in five seasons. This was their first bowl appearance since 1949 and first Sun Bowl since 1948. The Tigers had been ranked three times during...
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  • The 1959 Sun Bowl featured the New Mexico State Aggies and the North Texas State Eagles. New Mexico State represented the Border Intercollegiate Athletic...
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  • The 1949 Sun Bowl was a college football postseason bowl game between the Texas Mines Miners and the West Virginia Mountaineers. Controversy surrounded...
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  • Texas Tech did not return to a bowl game until 1948, with their third Sun Bowl appearance. Tulsa has not returned to a Sun Bowl since this game. "Tulsa 6,...
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  • The 1947 Sun Bowl was a post-season American college football bowl game between the VPI Gobblers (now the Virginia Tech Hokies) of the Southern Conference...
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    championship team in 2000, along with 14 postseason bowl appearances. The Miners play their home games at the Sun Bowl which has a seating capacity of 51,500. The...
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  • The 1945 Sun Bowl was a postseason college football bowl game held at Kidd Field in El Paso, Texas, on January 1, 1945, with approximately 13,000 spectators...
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  • Louisiana at Lafayette at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) level as a member of the Sun Belt Conference. Since 1971, the team has played...
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  • record (4–0 against conference opponents), lost to Miami (OH) in the 1948 Sun Bowl, and outscored all opponents by a total of 228 to 184. In the final...
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  • During his time on the Texas Tech football team, he played in the 1948 Sun Bowl. During his senior year, he led he team in pass receiving and scoring...
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    NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) level, where it has competed since 2001. The football program joined the Sun Belt Conference in 2004....
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    rights for the upcoming 2010 Pro Bowl and Super Bowl XLIV. On January 20, 2010, Canadian financial services company Sun Life Financial announced that it...
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  • The NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), formerly known as Division I-A, is the highest level of college football in the United States. The...
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  • 1946 Sun Bowl was a college football postseason bowl game between the New Mexico Lobos and the Denver Pioneers. New Mexico was in their first Sun Bowl since...
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    member of the Sun Belt Conference East Division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, playing at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision...
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  • The 1944 Sun Bowl was the tenth edition of the Sun Bowl, an annual postseason college football bowl game. The game was held at Kidd Field in El Paso, Texas...
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  • The Grape Bowl was a postseason college football bowl game played in 1947 and 1948. It was held at the Grape Bowl stadium, in Lodi, California. Both games...
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  • The Gator Bowl is an annual college football bowl game held in Jacksonville, Florida, usually contested on or around New Year's Day. It has been held...
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    college football in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. The Eagles are currently members of the Sun Belt Conference and play their home games at...
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    with the Orange Bowl and Sun Bowl as the second-oldest bowl games in the country, surpassed only by the Rose Bowl Game. The Sugar Bowl was originally played...
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    Carolina. The Mountaineers have competed in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) and the Sun Belt Conference since 2014. Appalachian plays its home games...
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    combined total of 240 to 97, and defeated Texas Tech, 13–12, in the 1948 Sun Bowl. Miami University and Western Michigan College were admitted to the...
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